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Yuko Minamikawa Adams was born and grew up in Japan, and wrote mainly in Japanese until moving to the UK in 2001. She is a member of the Letchworth-based Poetry ID group.

Arlene Ang lives near Venice, Italy, and her poetry has appeared in Orbis, Poetry Ireland, Obsessed With Pipework and Rattle. She received the Frogmore Poetry Prize in 2006.

Rex Barker is a mysterious Syracuse academic and a close associate of the Nottingham-based artists Simon Withers and Chris Lewis-Jones.

John Barnie is a former editor of Planet magazine, and his most recent book, Sea Lilies: Selected Poems 1984 – 2003 (Seren) draws on seven previous collections. 

Marlo Bester-Sproul lives in East Sussex and her work has appeared in Stand and Mslexia. Her manuscript collection Coming Home From The Mines was short-listed for the New Writer’s Poetry Prize in 2003 and is currently seeking a publisher.

A.C. Bevan published his first pamphlet, Of Sea Graves and Sand Shrines, with Arc and his debut full-length collection is due to appear from Salmon later this year.

Stephen Blyth lives in Manchester and has published two collections with Peterloo Poets, Baddy and So. His third is due out later this year.

Roger Caldwell is a writer on philosophy and science and a regular reviewer for the TLS and PN Review. His collection This Being Eden is published by Peterloo Poets.

Jill Campbell currently lives in Sussex. She took a career break in 2003 and last year graduated from the University of Chichester, where she received the Philip Le Brun Prize for Creative Writing. 

Matthew Clegg received a Gregory Award in 1997 and his previous publications include Lost Between Stations (Northern Lights) and Nobody Sonnets (Longbarrow). The Power-line is forthcoming from Wrecking Ball Press.

Clare Crossman won the 1996 Redbeck Competition with her pamphlet Landscapes, and her work also featured in Take 5:04 (Shoestring Press). She recently collaborated with the musician Richard Newman on Fenlight, a series of poems and songs.

Jeremy Duffield lives in Derbyshire and works part time at veterinary surgery. His work was recently featured in the anthology A Tale Of Three Cities. He also writes plays and paints.

Elizabeth Foy was short-listed for the Poetry Business pamphlet competition in 2004 and her work has appeared in Other Poetry and Soundings.

Graham Fulton has published four collections, Humouring The Iron Bar Man and Knights Of The Lower Floors  (Polygon), This (Rebel Inc) and Ritual Soup and Other Liquids (Mariscat).

Desmond Graham lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and his sixth collection, Heart Work, is due from Flambard later in the year.

Paul Groves has published four collections, Academe, Wowser, Ménage à Trois and Eros and Thanatos, all with Seren. His fifth, Qwerty, is due later in the year.

Douglas Houston has published three collections, With The Offal Eaters and The Hunters In The Snow (Bloodaxe) and The Welsh Book Of The Dead (Seren). He is also a regular contributor to Poetry Review and other journals.

Simon Howells currently lives in Cardiff where he works for a charity. His stories have appeared in New Welsh Review and Cambrensis.

Maria Jastrzebska was born in Warsaw, Poland, and grew up in London. Her books include Postcards From Poland with visual artist Jola Scicinska (Working Press), Home From Home (Flarestack) and Syrena (Redback Press).

Mimi Khalvati has published five collections with Carcanet, In White Ink, Mirrorwork, Entries On Light, The Chine and Selected Poems. A new volume is forthcoming later in the year.

Joel Lane is the author of two novels, From Blue To Black and The Blue Mask (Serpent’s Tail) and two poetry collections, The Edge Of The Screen and Trouble In The Heartland (Arc).

Adrian Lenthall has worked as a classical musician, psychodynamic counsellor and organisational consultant and his poems have appeared in Magma, The Interpreter’s House and Iota.

Chris Lewis-Jones is a Nottingham-based artist and a close associate of the mysterious Syracuse academic Rex Barker.

Mairi MacInnes has been writing since the 1940s and her many publications include Elsewhere & Back: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe), The Pebble (University Of Illinois Press) and Clearances: A Memoir (Pantheon, New York). Mairi MacInnes: A Tribute was published by Shoestring to mark her 80th birthday, and a collected edition of her poems is forthcoming from the same publisher.

Sophie Mayer recently returned from Toronto, where she acted as poetry editor on echolocation magazine, and her own poems have appeared in The Allotment: New Lyric Poets (Stride) and (as Sophie Levy) in a split collection, Marsh Fear/Fen Tiger (Salt) shared with Leo Mellor.

Christine McNeill has published two full-length collections, Kissing The Night (Bloodaxe) and The Outsider (Shoestring Press).

Mary Michaels is the author of My Life In Films (The Other Press) and her poetry collection The Shape Of The Rock (Sea Cow Press) was one of the publications featured in Staple 62: The Alt.Gen Issue.

Hsien Min Toh lives and works in Singapore. He is the editor of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and has published two collections of poetry, Iambus and The Enclosure of Love.

Ann Pilling lives in Oxford and her first book, Black Harvest, appeared in 1983. She has since written over thirty further titles for children and young readers, and four novels for adults.

Peter Porter came to the UK from Australia in 1951, and has published and edited widely in both countries. His major works include a two volume Collected Poems: 1961 - 1999 (OUP), Max Is Missing, which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2002, and Afterburner (Picador). His latest pamphlet is Eighteen Poems (Shoestring Press).

D.A. Prince lives in Leicestershire and has published three pamphlets, most recently Keeping In Touch (Pikestaff Press). She is a member of Soundswrite poetry group.

John Seed published his first book in 1977 and his New and Collected Poems appeared from Shearsman Books in 2005. His most recent collection is Pictures from Mayhew London 1850, also available from Shearsman.

Chris Sewart works as a Rural Centres Officer in Leicestershire. His work has appeared in the anthologies A Tale Of Three Cities and Trick Of Watching, and he is a previous winner of the Leicester and Leicestershire Short Story Competition.

Knute Skinner lives in County Clare, Ireland, and his most recent collection is Stretches (Salmon). The Other Shoe won the Pavement Saw Chapbook Award for 2003 and a collected edition of his poems is due from Salmon later in the year.

Peter Stephens lives in Prague and is a professional translator, as well as a staff member at Charles University. He specializes in bringing Czech and German literature into English, and has served as liaison officer for various translation groups throughout Central Europe.

Kenneth Steven has published a selected poems, Atlantic, with Peterloo Poets and his seventh collection, Salt and Light, is forthcoming from Saint Andrew Press.

Martin Wasserman is a retired professor in the State of New York system, where he taught psychology for 36 years. He has had many journal articles published by the Prague Circle of Writers and is the author of Kafka Kaleidoscope.

Tony Williams lives in Sheffield and his work has appeared in the TLS, The Printer’s Devil and the anthology Ten Hallam Poets (Mews Press).

Simon Withers is a Nottingham-based artist and a close associate of the mysterious Syracuse academic Rex Barker.